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Scooter Companies Have Two Weeks to Get Off the Streets of San Francisco
The City of San Francisco just gave scooter companies Bird, Spin, and Lime an ultimatum: Get off the street and apply for a permit, or else.
People in San Francisco are really pissed over these electric scooters
A fleet of app-controlled electric scooters were dumped on the streets of San Francisco last month. People hate them.
Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability
San Francisco's electric scooters are disruptive to the communities where they are abandoned and, because they are constantly moving, the issues of abandonment and refuse cycle through neighborhoods.
San Francisco Is Fighting the Scooter Trend With Poop and Vandalism
After years of being a testbed for startups, San Francisco is fighting back by literally smearing shit on scooters.
'Mouthbert's New Friend,' Today's Comic by Robin Vehrs
When a bird destroys Mouthbert's painting, he takes it as a cosmic intervention from Mother Nature.
Thai Hospital Food Is a Delicious World of Shrimp Porridge and Bird Saliva
I had to get 60 stitches in my head in Bangkok and learned that Thai hospital food is a wonderland of delicious noodles, mushroom soups, and chicken delicacies.
How-To: Make Brick Chicken
Liza Queen, chef/owner of a bunch of now-closed cult restaurants, teaches us how to make brick chicken. The secret ingredients: butter, salt, butter, and more butter.
'Black Metal Musicians Lost in the Woods,' Today's Comic by Pedro D'Apremont
The band's attempt to film a music video leads to cannibalism, smudged makeup, and a lost camera man.
Witness the Wonders of Nature as a Raven Brutally Disembowels a Live Pigeon
One New Yorker was thoughtful enough to capture the grisly scene on film so we can all marvel at the city's wildlife.
'The Third Quadrant, So Far,' Today's Comic by Brian McCray
Things get a little trippy when a captain and his second-in-command realize they've been in outer space for too long.
This Shit Is a Delicacy
The droppings of the bird called a ptarmigan are considered a delicacy in certain parts of Greenland—a delicacy because, in a place of limited food resources, the oddest things can be regarded as haute cuisine.